How to Decorate Sugar Cookies Shaped Like Wedding Cakes
Sugar cookies decorated to look like wedding cakes make ideal bridal shower desserts or favors. You can also use them as wedding reception favors. To create the whimsical treats, simply transform your favorite sugar cookie dough into wedding cake shapes and decorate them with decadent toppings. The cookies will look so tempting that you can even use them as shower or reception table decor by displaying them on a tiered cake stand. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Sugar cookie dough
- Rolling pin
- Wedding cake-shaped cookie cutter
- Wire cooling rack
- 4 cups of confectioner's sugar
- 3 tablespoons of meringue powder
- 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup of warm water
- Electric mixer
- Mixing bowl
- Food coloring paste or gel (optional)
- Sugar pearls
- Molded sugar decorations
Instructions
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Roll homemade or store-bought sugar cookie dough out on a floured surface using a rolling pin. Cut the dough with a three-tiered wedding cake-shaped cookie cutter.
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Bake the wedding cake-shaped cookies according to recipe directions. Allow the cookies to cool thoroughly on a wire rack before decorating them.
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Make a batch of royal icing, which dries to a hard, smooth finish. Create the icing by combining 4 cups of confectioner's sugar, 3 tablespoons of meringue powder, 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract and 1/2 cup of warm water with an electric mixer in a bowl. Tint the icing with food coloring paste or gel to create your preferred colors.
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Top the cake-shaped cookies neatly with the royal icing. Use white icing for a traditional wedding cake look, or go with a hue, such as pastel pink, that coordinates with the reception colors.
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Decorate the iced cookies with wedding-inspired touches. Press ivory-colored edible sugar pearls onto the icing while it is still wet; as the icing hardens, the pearls will set into place. Enhance the tops of the cookies with flower bouquet-shaped molded sugar decorations as a sweet touch.
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Tips & Warnings
You can find sugar pearls and appropriately shaped cookie cutters through a specialty shop or online.
References
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